Madison - James Cromwell, the Oscar-nominated actor who starred in "L.A. Confidential" and "Babe," was arrested Thursday morning with protester Jeremy Beckham of PETA for shouting during a University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents meeting, calling campus research on cats torture, not science.

The two burst into the meeting room as a UW System official was beginning a report to the regents about whether the system is on target to reach its goal of producing 80,000 more degree holders by 2025. | Feb. 7, 2013»Read Full Article(133)

Bill Haig, a major figure in Milwaukee broadcasting who bolstered WTMJ radio's reputation for sports coverage and later ran the Milwaukee Brewers' broadcast operations for almost two decades, died Saturday. He was 78.

Haig, of Oak Creek, had been ill in recent years and was in hospice care, according to his wife of 54 years, Naomi. He was surrounded by family when he died. | April 7, 2013»Read Full Article

Local bands Fahri, Outside, the Olives and Rat Lips will play a benefit show at the Riverwest Public House Cooperative, 815 E. Locust St., to raise funds for the nonprofit Girls Rock Camp to be held this summer at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd. | April 7, 2013»Read Full Article

Actors devote hundreds of hours to productions that are onstage for just a few weeks - occasionally playing before audiences small enough to fit in one's living room. Then the props are stowed, the set is struck and that brief moment is gone and often forgotten.

Twin Cities novelist William Kent Krueger visits a pair of Milwaukee bookstores Monday in support of 'Ordinary Grace' (Atria Books, $24.99), a stand-alone novel that's a change of pace from his Cork O'Connor mysteries.

In her review in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Carole E. Barrowman called "Ordinary Grace" "a touching coming-of-age novel about family, faith and the empathy that can come from a violent loss." | April 7, 2013»Read Full Blog Post